Cosmic clouds : birth, death, and recycling in the galaxy
Studies the clouds of interstellar space, considering the process by which new stars are formed, looking at how star birth generates planets and perhaps life, and studying how the deaths of stars begins the process anew
Print Book, English, ©1997
Scientific American Library : Distributed by W.H. Freeman and Co., New York, ©1997
xii, 253 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
9780716750758, 0716750759
36074407
Among the stars
Entering the nebulae
Dark dust
Opening the spectrum
Molecules!
Star formation
Distilling the planets
Planets to planetaries to planets
Paths to glory and creation
Cosmic cycles